Title:  Senior Manager, Cost Accounting

At West, we’re a dedicated team that is connected by a purpose to improve patient lives that has been at the center of our Company for more than a century. Our story began when Herman O. West solved the problem of supplying penicillin in mass quantities to the US Government during World War 2. Through our work to deliver thousands of life-saving and life-enhancing injectable medicines to millions of patients daily, West’s indelible mark on the healthcare industry has just begun. A name started our story. How will yours help write our future?  

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Job Summary:

This is a global position within the centralized cost accounting COE, supporting West’s plants across the globe. We are seeking a leader for this team who has a strong understanding of cost accounting as well as with business process definition, system implementations, and working cross-functionally. This role is responsible for managing aspects of manufacturing accounting for multiple plants and setting the strategy around costing for the division.  This includes developing and monitoring the accuracy of inventory valuation and standard costs in accordance with GAAP requirements as well as month-end financial closing, reconciliations, and reporting.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Establish and lead areas of cost accounting and inventory controlling COE
• Drive consistency and standardization of cost accounting policies and procedures
• Own inventory valuation and product costing processes within scope of role
• Lead SAP implementation for the FICO module as it relates to plant accounting, product costing, and associated master data as plants transition manufacturing to S4
• Oversee the plant level month end close tasks including the preparation of journal entries, reserve analyses, and account reconciliations for all manufacturing locations supported by the wider cost accounting team
• Responsible for coordinating all the details to develop the annual AOP and standard costs in collaboration with FP&A and operations
• Ensure appropriate controls and compliance with US GAAP
• Support and assist in the global initiatives relating to cost accounting for all regions/divisions of West
• Support and assist other functions within the business as required

Preferred Qualifications & Experience: 

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Business with concentration in Accounting/Finance
• Experience: 10+ years of experience
• Extensive knowledge of SAP including SAP implementation experience
• Understanding of the manufacturing environment and the associated financial processes
• Knowledge of supply chain, receiving, inventory flow, operations process and manufacturing principles
• Strong ability to assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem
• Ability to effectively analyze transactional level detail in an enterprise resource planning system and articulate the key findings to senior management
• Ability to multi-task and drive actions to completion under strict deadlines
• Understanding of GAAP and internal control principles
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Travel Requirements:

• 10%     #LI-AS

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